@d086: "1. Gore Effect
 The phenomenon that leads to unseasonably cold temperatures, driving
rain, hail, or snow whenever Al Gore visits an area to discuss global
warming. Hence, the Gore Effect.
- Australia, November 2006: Al Gore is visiting two weeks before
summer begins. The Gore Effect strikes: "Ski resort operators gazed at
the snow in amazement. Parents took children out of school and headed
for the mountains. Cricketers scurried amid bullets of hail as
Melburnians traded lunchtime tales of the incredible cold." (The Age)
- New York, March 2004: "Gore chose January 15, 2004, one of the
coldest days in New York City's history, to rail against the Bush
administration and global warming skeptics... Global warming, Gore
told a startled audience, is causing record cold temperatures." (NY
Environment News)
2. Gore Effect
2. Refusal of an audience to grasp even the most basic model of
climate change, even after it is explained, preferring to smirk at its
absurdity.
Hey, we may have a tragic, unnecessary war, an exploding deficit, and
overseas torture chambers, but at least we don't have to pay attention
to the Gore effect."
    @Justice: "<email_address> wrote
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Large Moulins in Greenland causing an Alarm - 2007
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A moulin is the name for a giant hole in a glacier in which millions of 
gallons of melt water can cascade through to the rocky surface underneath 
the glacier during the melt season.
Why am I bringing this up now? Well, on a recent trip to Greenland a group 
of scientists and journalists were alarmed at the size and number of these 
moulins that they saw on the Greenland ice cap. Some of the moulins in 
Greenland run on the scale of Niagra Falls and are helping the glaciers to 
move at three times the rate that they did previously.
Scientists say the acceleration of melting and subsequent speeding up of 
giant glaciers could be catastrophic in terms of sea level rise and make 
previous predictions published this year by the Intergovernmental Panel on 
Climate Change (IPCC) far too low, according to the article from AlterNet, 
which is a progressive news website.
Professor Robert Correll, chairman of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment 
said that newly invented ice penetrating radar showed that the melt water 
was pouring through to the bottom of the glacier creating a melt water lake 
500 metres deep causing the glacier "to float on land. "These melt water 
rivers are lubricating the glacier, like applying oil to a surface and 
causing it to slide into the sea. It is causing a massive acceleration which 
could be catastrophic." Correll stated that one particular glacier puts 
enough fresh water into the sea in one day to provide drinking water for a 
city the size of New York for a year.
Correll believes that the estimates of a 20 to 60 centimeter sea level rise 
this century from the IPCC report in February had been "conservative" and 
feels that it would be at the upper end of this range at a minimum. Some 
scientists fear that number could be 2 metres (200 centimeters), which would 
obviously have catastrophic effects for European and U.S. coastlines."
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